A new view of the past: the renovated Dickson Mounds Museum; New directions in educational programming at DMM; New exhibits in an old place: origins and interpretations; Two centuries of development at Dickson Mounds; Shape of things to come

Kimberly K. Britton appointed Museum editor; In a box of pine: coffins from the Grafton historic cemetery; Saluting years of their faithful service; Pueblo ceramic figurines; Friends are for keeps!; North American pollen database; Shape of things...

Papers, Addresses, Reports: Can We Meet the Challenge?; Papers Presented at the 47th Annual Meeting; The Fish Population of the Main Stream of the Big Muddy River; Ecological Factors Affecting the Growth of Smallmouth Bass and Longear Sunfish...

Papers, Symposia, Addresses, Reports: The Academy's Opportunities for Usefulness; Cultural Affinities and Differences in Illinois Archaeology; The Use of Animal Life by the Mound-building Indians of Illinois; Geology and the Indian Mounds;...

A mammoth's coat in the fall; Animal exploitation patterns in "Illinois Country": an archaeological perspective; Birth of "Spirited Visions"; Searching for birds in the Midwest; Living in the past; Calendar; Curator's bookshelf